Yeah there's nooooo way it also could have just been your garden variety stimulant/amphetamine psychosis

I have a sneaking suspicion his buddy was doing meth/adderall/other stimulants to stay lean.

Amphetamines combined with lack of sleep can fuck with your head. (Especially if you're already an idiot.)

For the record everyone: Methamphetamine is growing rapidly in terms of popularity, all over the world.

Crystal meth can absolutely destabilize one's mental health to the point it is scary.

Yes it can make you lose weight and concentrate on boring tasks but you HAVE to fucking sleep and eat. (A lot of people just stop taking care of themselves cause the physiological cues for hunger and rest don't happen on these drugs)

Don't use meth every day. Duh.

If you begin to feel like you're experiencing things that are outside the realm of normal possibility you might want to put it down and take a Valium and just go to fucking bed.

Thank you this has been my meth TED talk.

(2 years clean this November.)

Making yourself a House MD case lmao

The problem is he was INJECTING it. Everyone knows gold is best used as a suppository. That's just undisputed fact.

We don't need to rediscover all of science and medicine from first principles guys I promise that you can trust some people in some times and situations and be mostly ok

Well, that's certainly one way of Chinamaxxing.

This happened 3 months ago. Connor Murphy died from drowning in a lake in Thailand. His two bro-science friends claim that he was injecting gold and that the gold injection made him behave erratically.

I think there's not enough evidence to show that injecting gold would make him behave erratically. There are documented instances of people injecting gold for medical research. I think Connor was probably behaving erratically prior to injecting gold, if he even actually injected gold.

All I can think of is those Scheming Eunuchs comics

I keep hoping that more rich asshole dispose of themselves like Chinese nobles (apocryphally) did

Like, Elon just blowing himself up on a rocket trying to launch himself to the moon

99% of emperors quit before they discover the perfect potion of lead and gold for immortality.

Horrible situation, horrible thing to have happen due to a diseased society focused too hard on beauty at the cost of one's health, but I have to say, being driven mad after attempting to ascend past humanity's limitations after achieving physical perfection is one hell of a way to go.

ill ne er regret focusing on thinkmaxxing instead of looksmaxxing.

Gold does have special powers if you ingest invest it.

good riddance

something tells me this guy didn't fully understand the lore of Elden Ring, should've read more item descriptions

I feel like there was probably some mental health issues going on. Whether before or after the gold, I think this person probably had some kind of delusional thinking or maybe mania? I'm not a doctor, I won't try to diagnose him, but I think the real atrocity is his "friends" not intervening and getting him help and instead apparently cheering him on and hoping he would succeed in this ridiculous experiment.